Dennis Deery

The movie 21 is based on the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. It’s the story of a group of MIT students who spend their weekends in casinos counting cards, taking the house for big money playing blackjack. The book was a gripping non-fiction read. Hollywood looked at the story of college kids taking casinos for big money and said “Hmm, needs more drama.” Thankfully, their additions for the most part didn’t do any harm to the story.